Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino has been a fixture at Disney/Pixar and has provided his talents for several J.J. Abrams projects — both Television and Film — so it probably won’t come as much of a surprise to learn that Giacchino will compose the scores to Cars 2, Super 8, Mission: Impossible IV and […]

Paramount has struggled to find the right co-star to play an operative opposite Cruise, and one factor was to selecting an actor who could potentially carry the series down the line, should Cruise’s Ethan Hunt […]

Appearing on “Lopez Tonight” last night to promote his upcoming movie “Piranha 3D”, Ving Rhames revealed that he will be reprising his role as Luther Stickell in Mission: Impossible IV.

Mission: Impossible IV, directed by Brad Bird and produced by J.J. Abrams, hits theaters on December 16, 2011. As previously reported, Tom Cruise will return to star and Simon Pegg also recently revealed that is in negotiations to return.

Vulture is reporting that Tom Cruise has agreed to take a significant up-front pay cut to appear in Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible 4. According to the site, Cruise signed a deal that will pay him more depending on the profitability of the film:

Paramount Pictures has moved Mission: Impossible IV to December 16, 2011. The film was originally scheduled to hit theaters in May. Paramount also officially announced that the secretive J.J. Abrams-directed / Steven Spielberg-produced Super 8.

M:I IV will be directed by Brad Bird, who will be making his live-action directorial debut.

Paramount Pictures today announced that they’ve signed a deal with Tom Cruise to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible IV. Cruise will produce with Mission: Impossible III director J.J. Abrams. Screenwriters Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec will write the script and the studio is in the process of looking for a […]

Paramount Pictures and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have tapped Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write the screenplay to Mission: Impossible IV. Applebaum and Nemec are the creators of the new ABC series Happy Town and previously created October Road and the recent U.S. version of Life on Mars for ABC.

The latest issue of TV Guide reports that director J.J. Abrams is reuniting with Tom Cruise to serve as a producer on Mission: Impossible IV. Abrams directed Mission: Impossible III in 2006. It was his directorial debut (for film).

“I am incredible honored that Tom has invited me back as a producer […]